Shirley's Mind Grapes

Shirley's Mind Grapes

The answers to questions nobody asked

sketches

Dailies 02/17/14

Dailies 02/17/14

Daily Doodle: And the Academy Award goes to …

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Song of the Day: Popsicles and Icicles by The Murmaids

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg3HNnNewXs

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m playing the electric guitar with a smile on my face. I’m wearing thick black rimmed glasses that hold my full prescription.

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Blurb 1/365: I am pretty much against all teasing, but there are certain types I can take and some that I hate. I realize the teasing I hate the most is when the teaser has this preemptive smirk on their face with a sideways glance since they’re so tickled with the predicted outcome. Then when the target realizes they’ve been teased and have a slight furrow in their brow, the teaser unleashes in an annoying laugh and catches eyes with others that laugh along either willingly or by force of social nuances. When I’m witnessing those sorts of situations, I wish I was sitting next to some drapes and had Wolverine claws so I could bust them out and rip the drapes to shreds out of frustration. Then I would calmly retract my claws and politely ask the teaser(s) to continue with whatever they were talking about or, better yet, contribute something useful to the world.

Dailies 02/15/14

Dailies 02/15/14

Daily Doodle: Ponyo

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Song of the Day: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow by The Shirelles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbxxkwBQk_o

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m wearing a square-necked satin dress and singing lead.

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Blurb 1/365: The Halloween costumes from my childhood that I remember are: an angel (but I didn’t want to wear the wings, so I became known as a bride), a punk rocker, death with a bloody axe instead of a scythe (I was this more than once), and a person being strangled by an arm severed at the elbow (my mom made this for me using one of my dad’s work shirts, a hand prop from a party store, and ketchup from Burger King ketchup packets). The Halloween costumes from my adulthood that I remember are: a mouse, a bear, and Kermit the Frog.

Dailies 02/14/14

Dailies 02/14/14

Dailies: Puppygram!

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Song of the Day: You Got Me Wide Open by Bootsy Collins featuring Bernie Worrell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAfgOAJMh5c

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m sitting at the back end of a stage playing the drums. I’ve got a microphone nearby my head so I can turn my head to sing backup. “Sittin’ on a groove and he wanna play …” Then I can snap my head back to break into the next part of the song.

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Blurb 1/365:

Blurb 1/365: I remember listening to the Friday soundtrack for the first time on cassette tape. I got it from The Wherehouse and it was packaged in a cardboard case that slipped on from one of the short ends. I had a clock radio that I kept on the side of my bed that was against a wall next to my pillow. It was a big, rectangle block that had sharp edges. There was a tape deck that popped up from the top. I would quietly click it down and listen to tapes on the lowest volume. I let a friend borrow it to record onto a blank cassette tape and when he returned it, I made some smart comment about it not being rewound. He said, “Who are you, Blockbuster?” Then I remembered the movie Kathleen Turner was in called Serial Mom where she killed that person that didn’t rewind their rented video tapes. I remember the oddest things.

Dailies 02/10/14

Dailies 02/10/14

Daily Doodle: Timmy or Tommy

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Song of the Day: He’s So Fine by The Chiffons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rinz9Avvq6A

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m doing the doo-langs and snapping as I sway back and forth.

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Blurb 1/365: I want both the introduction to the presentation of my life achievement award and my eulogy read in the style of Otho from Beetlejuice. “The wedding clothes …”